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Meet the Korean female butcher in Singapore who's as skilled with a meat cleaver as cooking beef and pork
Channel News Asia ^ | 02 May 2022 | Vanessa Chia

Posted on 05/02/2022 10:37:06 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Heba Kim is strong enough to lift 50kg slabs of beef and pork, deft enough to tease out the best cuts in meat, and chill enough to take in her stride the prejudices she sometimes faces as a woman butcher.

When you think of butchers, images of burly men in singlets and bloodied aprons wielding huge cleavers often come to mind. So when I meet Heba Kim, I am pleasantly surprised. The petite Korean woman is a certified butcher – as well as the head chef of The Butcher’s Dining, a premium Korean butcher, grocery store and cafe in one. Kim oversees the running of its entire operations.

But it’s the 33-year-old’s speciality in butchery that intrigues me as female butchers are a rare bunch. In fact, Kim recounted that during her butchery course at the Livestock Hygiene Training Institute in South Korea, she was one of three females in a class of 60 people.

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“I really love my meats, and I really wanted to study more about it,” said Kim.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Hobbies; Local News
KEYWORDS: butcher; meat; singapore

1 posted on 05/02/2022 10:37:06 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Pity her poor husband if she sleep walks.


2 posted on 05/02/2022 10:45:31 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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A true sister. *raises fist*


3 posted on 05/02/2022 10:45:51 AM PDT by Scarlett156 (On the way to #ScientologyPause we enacted #DisneyPause. A thing of beauty. You're welcome.)
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To: oldasrocks

He wont feel a thing.

LOL!


4 posted on 05/02/2022 10:48:02 AM PDT by crz
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To: nickcarraway

She also performs gender reassignment surgery on the side.


5 posted on 05/02/2022 11:04:37 AM PDT by PTBAA
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To: crz; oldasrocks
In related news, Lorena Gallo (formerly Lorena Bobbitt) explains why she never remarried. LOL


https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2019/02/14/lorena-bobbitt-never-remarried-heres-why/2853176002/

Moral of the story: don't hook up with someone raised in communist Venezuela. LOL

6 posted on 05/02/2022 11:07:32 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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7 posted on 05/02/2022 12:20:08 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PTBAA
She also performs gender reassignment surgery on the side front.
8 posted on 05/02/2022 12:26:40 PM PDT by null and void (Russia no longer looks like the #2 military power in the world. Maybe #2 military power in Ukraine)
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Cute picture of her with the remains of a few of her boyfriends hanging in the background...


9 posted on 05/02/2022 1:01:22 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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lmao


10 posted on 05/02/2022 4:20:01 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: PIF

She better be careful so no one steals her kishka.


11 posted on 05/03/2022 8:02:17 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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